BogBase Report

15 April, 2021

Summary statement

To date, YPP has surveyed over 48,643 ha of peatland on 130 unique sites. With an estimated total of 95,701 ha of peat units to investigate in our project area, YPP has surveyed 51% of the area so far. Based on previous surveys, YPP estimates that by the time we survey all 95,701 ha, we expect 63,523ha to be actual peaty soils with 46,074 ha classed as deep peat (=40cm). We estimate that, all peaty soils within our project area have locked away a huge 46,993,105 tonnes of carbon which gives an average of 1,927 tonnes of carbon per hectare - one of the densest terrestrial carbon stores of any habitat!

Mose recently surveyed sites

SiteSurvey completion date
Thwaite Common24 Mar 2021
Wether Fell22 Mar 2021
Woodhall Greets18 Mar 2021
Ten End Peat Ground09 Mar 2021
Ingleby Moor03 Mar 2021

Erosion feature restoration